Audit System Ejected From Government Printing Office
Washington reports the president canceled the Audit System contract after a six day notice, replacing Public Printer Stillings with Rossiter. The joint committee will probe extravagance and costs, including high ink and stock expenses, and the office’s business efficiency.
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Washington
William §. Rossiter
Charles A. Stillings
Landis
Indiana
Government Printing Office
Lan
Joint Investigation Committee
Stillings
Rossiter
Census Bureau
White House
New Turkish Baths Opened by Fleischmann at 42d Street
The Fleischmann Turkish Baths at 42d Street and Sixth Avenue opened for press inspection last night. Julius Fleischmann announced years of study behind the project which reportedly cost about a half million dollars. Highlights include a sun parlor solarium with a tropical forest motif, marble fountains, statuary, and a plunge bath with a 6.4% gallon capacity renewed every half hour from a special artesian well deemed purer than New York drinking water.
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Fleischmann
Court Holds Newark Pair in $2000 Bail In Larceny Case
Detectives McConville and Nelson arrested Horace A. Blackmur Jr and Edna Smith in Room 19 of the Produce Exchange Building on charges of grand larceny. They failed to produce the Magistrate yesterday. the Tombs Court set $2000 bail for Monday examination. The pair allegedly conspired with J Fulton Rogers to obtain 670 dollars from Norman F Bailey. The woman identified as Margaret Von Edan is said to be a longtime associate of Blackmurester.
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McConville
Nelson
Horace A. Blackmur, Jr
Edna Smith
Newark
Produce Exchange
Grand
Corrigan
Tombs Court
J. N. Limbaugh
Talladega
Ala
J. Fulton Rogers
Blackmur
A. K. Hubbard & Co
Blackour
William F. Walker
Savings Bank of New Britain
Conn
Walker
Texas
Pinkerton
Norman F. Bailey
Pinkerton Agency
Wall Street
Bailey
Margaret von Edan
Nothing to Say Bryan Seeks New Jersey Trip
William J. Bryan, about to tour New Jersey to attack the octopus, offered “I have nothing to say” to reporters on all questions. He declined to discuss candidacy or policies, as ties to Buffalo plans for February 12 surfaced. Visitors included James Manahan and A. R. Talbot, with Talbot predicting Taft gains in Nebraska and Kansas.
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William J. Bryan
New Jersey
Bryan
Staten Island
Hoffman House
Jersey
Norman E. Mack
Buffalo
Mr. Bryan
Brooklyn
James Manahan
St. Paul
Minnesota State Senate
Minnesota
Johnson
A. R. Talbot
Woodmen of America
Central West
Talbot
Taft
Nebraska
Roosevelt
Kansas
Guild Eulogizes Lincoln Proclamation Urges Nation to Honor
Boston, Feb 6. Governor Curtis Guild Jr issued Massachusetts first Lincoln Day proclamation urging a pause from business on Feb 12 to honor Abraham Lincoln and display the American flag. He praises Lincoln’s restraint, patience, common sense, and integrity as guidance during both war and peaceful social change.
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Boston
Massachusetts
Curtis Guild, Jr
Abraham Lincoln
Guild
Lincoln
Unfrocked Clergyman Dies After Drowning Attempt
Dr. Carl Hullhorst, former Presbyterian minister expelled for heresy, died at Lincoln State Hospital after attempting to drown himself in a creek near the asylum. He entered the hospital ten days earlier and, after repeated dives, was exhausted and died about four hours later. He was a practicing physician and left a family.
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Lincoln
Neb
Carl Hullhorst
Presbyterian Church
State Hospital For
Hullhoerst
Muckraking in Michigan prompts grand jury action
Mason Mich February 6 Judge Wiest charged the Ingham County grand jury during a Lansing visit to probe three state matters. The issues include former State Treasurer Frank P Glazier's malfeasance allegations, bribe solicitation claims by State Senators over a binder twine plant at Jackson prison, and Governor Warner's charge about Arthur Kill of Saginaw using improper means to aid a United States Senate candidacy. The judge urged the jury to go to the bottom of the facts and consider other presented items.
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Mason, Mich
Wiest
Ingham County
Lansing
Frank FP. Glazier
Warner
Jackson
United States
Arthur Kill
Saginaw
Jersey Lawyers Dine At Hudson County Bar Dinner
At the Hudson County Bar Association annual dinner in New York City, Judge William H. Speer urged it was not yet time to shut the President's mouth on abuses. The event drew about 150 New Jersey lawyers with President Albert C. Wall presiding and remarks by Chancellor Mahlon Pitney and other jurists.
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Hudson County Bar Association of
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Hotel Astor
William H. Speer
Albert C. Wall
Mahlon Pitney
Frederic Adams
Camillus Kidder
Robert Carey
Wall
Pitney
Bar Association
Court of Appeals
Supreme Court
Francis J. Swayze
Charles W. Parker
Willard P. Vorhees
Lindsey M. Garrison
Frederic W. Stevens
Edwin R. Walker
Circuit Court
Benjamin A. Vail
Charles C. Black
Edward Kenny
Charles L. Carrick
James S. Irwin
Gilbert Collins
Henry Traphasen
Police
John Wahl Queen
Armer
Charles W. Fuller
James Edward M. Collie
Charles Ie
Jerse
Joseph B. Vredenburgh
Thompson
Judge Speer
Joseph H. Choate
Choate
Kidder
Will reopen Wasser man case with new witnesses testifying
Police Commissioner Bingham announced the Wasser man case would be reopened before First Deputy Commissioner Baker to allow two witnesses to testify. Charles Brooks and Harry Cohen were arrested in a raid by Reardon and Wasserman and held for trial in $1,000 bail.
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Joseph A. Wasserman
Baker
Charles Brooks
Harry Cohen
Reardon
Wasserman
Corrigan
Tombs
Defence May Call Pennypacker in Capitol Prosecution
Harrisburg February 6 The defense plans to call ex Governor Samuel W Pennypacker and possibly some defendants as trial resumes Stan ford B Lewis is to be cross examined John Bachman a Huston confidential employee will corroborate much of Lewis testimony and discuss the Capitol furnishing plans The Commonwealth expects to wrap up after Bachman testifies with possible surprises in tomorrow’s session
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Penn
Stanford B. Lewis
Capitol
John Bachman
Joseph M. Huston
Huston
Lewis
Sanderson
Bachman
Epidemic of Fires Across Philadelphia Early Today
Philadelphia reports four simultaneous blazes causing about 200000 dollars in damage. The Aries steamer at Pine street wharf suffered engine room fire with 5000 dollars in losses. Jacobs Brothers drugstore, adjacent Macey Furniture, and a publishing firm building on American Locust streets burned for about 100000 total. A fourth fire at Marshall Ritner streets left three homes damaged and twenty people homeless.
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Aries
Merchants and Miners’ Transportation Company
Pine Street
Delaware River
Jacobs Brothers
Chestnut Street
10Th Street
Macey Furniture Company
American
Locust Streets
Marshall and Ritner
Racine
Wis
Racine Club
Alschuler
Cincinnati
Newport Rolling Oil Company
11Th
Licking Streets
Covington
Licking Coal & Iron Company
Licking River
Mob Takes Black Man From Deputy in Louisiana Killing
In Delhi Louisiana on February 6 a mob abducted Robert Mitchell a Black man from a deputy sheriff at Oak Grove and fatally harmed him. The incident follows a prior assault by Mitchell who struck and fatally injured Leon Threlkeld the manager of Pioneer Cooperage Company near Usk Grove two miles west yesterday.
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Delhi
Robert Mitchell
Oak Grove
Here
Mitchel
Leon Threlkeld
Pioneer Cooperage Company
Usk Grove
Meat Trust Blocked by Supreme Court Ruling
Justice Greenbaum denied Schwarzschild & Sulzberger's request to inspect corporate records amid allegations of waste and diversion. He suggested the move aimed to aid a rival meat concern, noting Ferdinand Sulzberger denied wrongdoing while stock had risen from 100 to 300 a share. Frederick Joseph, a director, is linked to rival interests and a related suit by the New York Butchers’ Dressed Meat Company.
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Supreme Court
Beef Trust
New York
Moses H. Joseph
Schwarzschild & Sulzberger
Ferdinand Sulzberger
Sulzberger
Frederick Joseph
Schwarzschild & Sulzburger
Joseph
New York Butchers’ Dressed Meat Company
Tinnese
Bodies of Two Firemen Found at Worth Street Ruin
The bodies of Fireman Egtington of Hook and Ladder 1 and Fireman McConnell of Engine 4 were recovered from the ruins of the Worth Street fire building. Egtington’s body was identified at Engine 33 headquarters, while McConnell’s was taken to a nearby building for coroner action. Foreman Deenan and other crew had just returned to duty prior to the disaster.
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Hook and Ladder Company
McConnell
Engine Company 4
No. 45
Worth Street
Eglington
Captain Sweet
Engine Company 33
Great Jones Street
Thomas Gorman
Emergency Corps
Buildings Department
No. Sil East 43d Street
Bureau of Combustibles
John Deenan
Bureau
Runaway Horse Injures Doctor in Park Avenue Incident
Dr. Alfred N. Brockway aged 71, of 485 Central Park West, was knocked down by a runaway horse pulling a wagon near Park Avenue and 125th Street. He escaped with slight leg bruises after the hoofs passed over him. a patrolman stopped the horse and a cab took him home.
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Alfred N. Brockway
Central Park E West
Alfred Furst
Park Avenue
Brockway
125Th Street
Librarian and author Mansfield Lovell Hillhouse dies at 83
Mansfield Lovell Hillhouse, librarian and noted author of Storm King and The Senator's Daughter, died suddenly from appendicitis yesterday in this city. Born February 14, 1838 in Watervliet New York, he studied at Columbia Law School class of 79 and practiced law. He served as assistant librarian of the Hispanic Society of America and held several library and trustees roles. he was married in 148 to Isabel Conant, who survives him.
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Hillhouse
Mr. Hillhouse
Watervliet
Albany County
N. Y
John
Catherine M. (van Vranken) Hillhouse
Columbia Law School
Storm King
Hispanic Society of America
Dwight Alumni Association
Huntington Free Library
Isabel Conant
Sails to Claim Title and Estate
Gentile Cave-Browne-Cave, son of a titled Englishman, sailed yesterday on the White Star liner Critic to claim an inherited estate and title in England. After eighteen years apart the pair reconciled in part as the heir plans a return to the United States for a "good time" afterward. He has lived as a cowboy and miner since leaving home eighteen years ago, with a period in the Orient for a naturalist society. The family only recently reestablished contact after the father's death and locating him on a Wyoming ranch fence.
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Gentile Cave-Browne-Cave
England
Orient
Naturalist Society
America
Wyoming
Price of Iron Bars Raised by $2 a Ton
Members of the Western Bar Association at a city conference decided to advance iron bar prices by $2 per ton to $150 per hundred pounds. Eastern and Western iron bar manufacturers are reported to be cooperating.
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Western Bar Association
Western
Harmony
West Virginians at Dinner in New York Society
Charlestown Society of New York held its nineteenth annual reunion and dinner at the Hotel Manhattan. About one hundred former residents and friends attended in the grand ball room with Turner A. Beall as toast master. Speakers included Stewart Hirschman Joseph H. Beall H Stewart McKnight Welles J. Hawks and Welles Stumy. The group renamed itself The West Virginia Society of the City of New York.
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Charlestown Society
New York
Manhattan
Old West Virginia
Turner A. Beall
Stewart Hirschman
Joseph H. Beall
Yonkers
H. Stewart McKnight
Welles J. Hawks
Welles Stumy
West Virginia Society of the
City of New York
City News In Brief
The Rev R J Campbell, former City Temple pastor, will visit this country for a two month lecture tour with Chau tauqua societies. The Circulation Club of traveling newspaper reps will hold its annual beefsteak dinner at Stein's café Ferry and Cuff streets on Wednesday evening March 11. Dr Pearce Bailey will give a public lecture on Alcoholism at the Academy of Medicine 17 West 48th Street on Saturday evening February 1 at 6 30.
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Mth Street
Gray's Ferry
F- G. Hodgson
R. J. Campbell
City Temple
London
Joseph Parker
New York
Stein's Café
Ferry and
Cuff Streets
Pearce Bailey
Academy of Medicine
West 48d Street
Standard Oil Tug Beached Off Narshon Island
Standard Oil tug No. 2 went aground while attempting to float barge No. 57 off Narshon Island near Wood’s Hole Massachusetts. After two hours the crew abandoned ship amid a heavy south wind. Both tug and barge may be floated as they lack watertight compartment numbers.
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Wood's Hole
Mass
Standard Oil Company
Standard Oil
Narshon Island
St Cuthbert survivors report all doing well in Boston
Five crew members from the burned steamer St. Cuthbert who were hospitalized after the arrival of the steamer Ymric yesterday are reported well with no danger. They are expected to leave hospitals within one to two weeks. Twenty sailors still uninjured headed to England on the Winifredian, while cheers for St. Cuthbert return via New York in a few days.
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St. Cuthbert
New York
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